Your post hit the nail on the head in describing the problems I have encountered in
doing a Colwell type search . Excluding a word before another word is impossible when

searching for a phrase in which the first word is used later in the phrase. As a
result searching for a phrase of the type notword item1 verb word item2 cannot be
done. I
would however have thought that the search I used

where N??N is a nominative case noun of any gender or number and A??N is the matching

article and Greek lemma EIMI is all forms of the verb EIMI

would have given me all anarthrous noun1 EIMI arthrous noun2 and all arthrous noun 1
EIMI
arthrous noun2 combinations. My search however additionally gave me examples where
there were
intervening words between the search items. It does not appear the beforeword operand

functions correctly

in Christ
Tom

Randy LEEDY wrote:

> The message about the inability of the current crop of Bible software
> to recognize syntactical connections between words is right on the
> money. An additional factor for Tom Logan to be aware of is the fact
> that the boolean operators (such as "beforeword") in Logos do not
> function properly the last I knew. Also, I don't think Logos gives you
> any way to EXCLUDE a word within a certain range. So Logos's ability
> to search for grammatical constructions is extremely limited. I'm
> going to post a separate item on a idea for developing a more powerful
> tool for grammatical searches than is currently available.
>
> ****************************
> In love to God and neighbor,
> Randy Leedy
> Bob Jones University
> Greenville, SC
> RLeedy@bju.edu> ****************************
>
> Subject: searching for Colwell
> From: thomas j logan <caltom@gate.net>
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:02:25 -0500
> X-Message-Number: 3
>
> To All
>
> I have been trying Colwell type searches (anarthrous noun copulative
> verb arthrous noun) using logos. I am getting some strange results.
> Has
> anyone tried this? What did you use as a search argument? Were all
> hits valid or are some invalid hits normal? Has anyone tried this
> search or Granville Sharp type searches on other software i.e.
> bibleworks or gramcord.
>
> in Christ
> Tom
>
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